Lonnie said:
"his means that God is deceiving us to believe that some stars that never existed did or that the stars we are seeing never actually looked like we see them now (basically, God is showing us a picture show of things that never happened an is still doing it)."
Well not every one is decieced, only evolutionists.
Sorry that was a rather a cruel thing to say...
But as you all know, people decieve them selves. Like about evolution, they either trick themselves(or eachother):
a) think God Created every without means of evolution
b) think things evolved with Gods help
c) think things evolved by chance
Hmmm. Let's look at this. God never lies. But God created a Universe that
appears for several reasons (sedimentary rock sequences, radioactive breakdowns, measurable parallaxes, red shift, etc.) to be far older than the date of 4000 BC that can be painstakingly calculated as the approximate date of Creation from the Biblical standards.
On the other hand, men convey truth through a variety of means. Jesus, for example, told parables. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Jenkins and LaHaye are among Christian novelists. Fanny VanAlstyne Crosby and Charles Wesley wrote hymns. People ranging from David to T.S. Eliot have written poems.
There's nothing difficult in the idea that Genesis 1 is
story or
myth (in the anthropological sense, not the "falsehood" sense), conveying truth through easily grasped images rather than repertorial narration. And one of the key points of Genesis 1 is that God created the Sabbath -- He worked for six days and created the seventh for rest. Do you know how important the Sabbath is to Jewish piety? It's an
image -- a way of saying that God Himself made the Sabbath as an integral part of Creation.
And if you accept the idea that Genesis 1 is
true -- driving home important points about
how God created, rather than
when and for
how long -- but true as Jesus's parables are true, rather than as the lead AP story on the wire is true, then you have a concept that recognizes God as Creator but allows for the evidence of His Creation to be testifying to the truth.
YEC doctrine calls God a liar. It's as simple as that. It says that He intentionally planted false evidence in His universe, knowing that it would mislead us into thinking the world is far older than it is.
My God is no liar. Rather, He is so totally wise and compassionate that He created a world that played out His plan over billions of years, each intricate part being caused by what went before in accordance with His plan.